Thanks to Shannon (and Derek Wagner of Stata who responded off-list). As
guessed, I was opening up old stata7 graphs and needed to use the oldgprefs
dialog box. Steve
----Original Message-----
From: sdriver@stata.com [mailto:sdriver@stata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2003 7:18
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: color graph copying to microsoft word 2002
Steven Stillman <Steven.Stillman@lmpg.dol.govt.nz> wrote:
> I just recently upgraded to stata 8.2 from 7.0 and also upgraded from
> MS Word 97 to 02 all on a PC. Previously, with my graph clipboard
> settings on color in graph preferences, if I copied and pasted a color
> graph into Word (using the right-mouse menu) it would show up in
> color. Now, in the same circumstances it shows up in b-w. I am
> wondering if any one else has experienced this problem and knows of a
> solution. The hardest part in solving this problem is that it could
> be occurring either because of changes in default behavior in Stata or
> in Word. I have tried changing the graph clipboard setting in Stata
> (to automatic and as is) but this hasn't helped.
Friedrich Huebler <huebler@rocketmail.com> replied:
> This problem was discussed on the list previously. One suggestion was
> to update the printer driver.
It sounds as if you may be using the old Stata 7 style graphs (-graph7-).
If this is the case, you may need to change the clipboard settings the way
you did in Stata 7. To bring up the dialog to do so, you can type
. oldgprefs
In the resulting dialog, click on the Clipboard tab and then select the
scheme that you would like to use. After that, click OK.
Now, create a graph and click on the Graph window. You can now either click
on Edit -> Copy Graph or simply press Ctrl+C to copy the graph to the
clipboard.
Finally, in Word, or in whatever application you wish to paste the graph,
click on Edit -> Paste or press Ctrl+V to paste the graph.
If this does not work and you continue to have problems, please email
Stata's Technical Services for support. You can send an email to
tech-support@stata.com. We will be glad to assist.
--Shannon Driver
sdriver@stata.com
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